She pissed on my lap
I was sitting on my friend’s couch in the middle of a crowded birthday party when the cat jumped up on my lap. The woman next to me stopped her conversation to smile at me and say, “You must be a cat person.” Iris the cat purred loudly and nestled in, so I began scratching her chin. “Oh, I am. I grew up in a house where cats outnumbered people,” I told the woman, and then I felt something warm seeping down my inner thigh.
I jumped to my feet, forcing Iris to leap to the floor. A wet spot was spreading down the front of my jeans. My sudden movement made everyone’s heads snap to me. All I could get out was an incredulous “She pissed on my lap.”
It took a few seconds for the shock to subside, then a couple guests began discussing the best way to get urine out of clothes. After I’d changed and the washer was churning, everyone approached me. They struck up conversations; they knew my name. As an introvert, I was pretty uncomfortable with the attention, but I had no choice: I was The Guy Who Got Pissed On. I made several friends that night.
What’s my point? Three ounces of cat piss (apparently she was saving up) completely messed with my self-imposed label of “Introvert,” and good things resulted. All you Fiction|Poetry writers out there: consider getting a cat to piss on your jeans and entering the nonfiction yeah write super challenge #3.
Only good things will come from being a more well-rounded writer.
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Prompt Up!
Prompt Up is our optional weekly writing prompt for the fiction|poetry challenge! Here’s how it works: we choose a sentence prompt from last week’s winning nonfiction post and announce it in the kickoff. It’s your job to use that prompt in your poem or story and then run with it. The prompt is just a springboard, though: feel free to use it as your first sentence, move it, change it, or float down it to other territories.
Cindy felt the fear and said “yes” anyway in her essay The Magical Power of Doing the Opposite. This week’s prompt taken from her work is: “I’ve learned to do the opposite of what my brain tells me.”
Yeah write #300 fiction|poetry writing challenge is open for submissions!
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Submissions for this week’s challenges will close on Wednesday at 10pm ET. Voting will then open immediately thereafter and close on Thursday at 10pm ET. The winners, as always, will be celebrated on Friday.
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